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Lawmakers will take more time to decide whether ISTEP should be replaced in schools, but teachers unions say a bill to do so was amended in a way that hurts organized labor. The bill (SB 566) had already passed the Senate, but it was amended by the House Education Committee to...

A House committee votes Thursday on lifting restrictions on buying and selling wine on the Internet. Indiana bans online wine sales unless the customer has first had a face-to-face transaction with the seller. Crawfordsville Senator Phil Boots argues that requirement is both...

The dog flu fatality list is growing in the Chicago area. Five dogs are now dead as a result of the spread of the ailment. Indiana State Board of Animal Health's Dr. Sandi Norman says canine influenza was first isolated back in 2004. However, she says it's spreading again in the...

The Senate will vote next week on repealing Indiana's common-construction wage. Tax and Fiscal Policy Chairman Brandt Hershman (R-Buck Creek) made some further changes to the repeal bill before a committee vote to send it to the floor. The bill would now ban local governments...

Some top Indianapolis Department of Public Safety officials are bound for Washington this week. Department of Public Safety Director Troy Riggs, IMPD Chief Rick Hite and others will be meeting with Washington officials at the White House Wednesday. Riggs says the trip is based...

A small plane that had taken off from Indiana has crashed in central Illinois. The Sheriff's Department in McLean County, Illinois says the Cessna 414 went down early this morning about two-to-three miles from the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Illinois. The...

(image courtesy of IMPD) A 12-year-old runaway walked into an Indianapolis police substation less than two hours after she was reported missing, according to police. Lamariona Lee had last been seen Monday at 7023 Islander Drive. But shortly after an alert was given to news...

After two weeks of turmoil over the religious-freedom law, legislators return to another contentious issue Tuesday with a committee vote on repealing the common construction wage. Opposition to the prevailing-wage law hasn't reached the fever pitch of the wrenching debate over...

After weeks long concern that the Hoosier State Amtrak service would be shutting down for good, INDOT says that they are in talks with federal officials and the line will stay open. The trouble started with a federal ruling that came in the middle of contract talks between INDOT...